Department of  Communication Studies

COMM 200 Test 1 Study Guide

Definitions of human communication (from text and from lecture)
*The nature of communication from lecture (e.g., symbolic, social, coorientation, etc)
*intentionality and planning
*Goals or Functions of theory (describe, explain, predict, control)
*Criteria for good theory
*Epistemology (defined)
*How theories change
*Scientific Revolutions and Paradigm shifts
*Four perspectives of paradigmatic debates from lecture
*Covering laws, human action, and systems perspectives (basic assumptions)
*trait approach to communication (defined)
*dogmatism, apprehension, cognitive complexity, and Machiavellianism defined
*rhetorical sensitivity, rhetorical reflector, and noble self
*Cognitive dissonance theory (assumptions and propositions)
*Toulmin's model (list and describe parts) see web page http://www.unl.edu/speech/comm109/Toulmin/index.htm
*social judgment theory (latitude of rejection, acceptance, noncommitment)
*compliance gaining (assumptions)
*meaning as coconstructed
*denotative and connotative meaning
*linguistic relativity (assumptions and propositions)
*IA Richard's Semantic Triangle (list and describe parts)
*language as metaphorical
*conversation analysis (assumptions)
*speech act theory (assumptions and types of rules)
*Immediacy and liking
*Nonverbal Expectancy Violation Theory (list and describe parts)
*Types of Nonverbal Behaviors (proxemics, emblems, illustrators, regulators, adaptors, kinesics, paralanguage, etc.)